Anti-Semitic "Protocols of Zion" Endure, Despite..

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Anti-Semitic "Protocols of Zion" Endure, Despite Debunking

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Brian Handwerk
for National Geographic News
September 11, 2006

Five years after 9/11, lingering conspiracy theories hold that Jews planned the attacks. The charges' staying power, though, is nothing compared to that of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

The century-old text has been discredited many times over its hundred-plus-year history. Yet even today the tale finds willing believers among those who oppose Zionism—the idea that Jews should have a homeland in Palestine, an idea that was fulfilled in the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.

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How can one piece of propaganda endure for so long?

(Related feature: The Lost Gospel of Judas.)

The Protocols tell the tale of a secret plot in which a shadowy and powerful cabal of Jewish leaders and Freemasons sets out to dominate the world. The text purports to be the minutes of secret meetings held in Switzerland at the time of the First Zionist Congress in 1897.

The book outlines the group's endeavors to conquer the globe by manipulating the media and the global economy, promoting religious conflicts, and supporting socialism.

A Web search reveals thousands of Web sites with Protocols-related content. Most refute the texts and offer ample evidence of their fraudulent nature. But plenty of others exist to propagate the myth.

Russian Fraud

Daniel Greene is the curator of an exhibition on The Protocols currently at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

"The Protocols is a piece of propaganda that was useful before the Nazis, useful to the Nazis, and is still useful today, unfortunately, in spreading hatred of Jews," Greene said.

"It's interesting, because The Protocols have been exposed as a fraud so many times, and yet it doesn't matter, because it still works as propaganda. It doesn't matter to some people if propaganda is true or false—as long as it's useful."

The infamous writings first appeared in 1903 in the Russian newspaper Znamia (Banner). They are generally believed to have been the work of Tsar Nicholas II's secret police, though other theories exist.

Since 1903 The Protocols have been published in many countries and enjoyed some prominent support.

In 1920 U.S. industrialist Henry Ford published excerpts of The Protocols in his newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, and wrote a book that was heavily influenced by the text—The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem.

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Hoax Exposed

Despite their wide distribution, The Protocols have been exposed repeatedly as a hoax.

In 1921 the Times of London published convincing proof that The Protocols were largely plagiarized from books published decades earlier—primarily The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, by Maurice Joly (1864) and Biarritz by Hermann Goedsche (1868).

In subsequent years similar exposés appeared in Germany and the United States. A U.S. Senate committee declared that The Protocols were bogus. And in 1993 they were officially declared fraudulent by a court in the country of their origin—Russia.

Even Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels believed The Protocols were a fraud, though this did not stop Goebbels and the Nazi regime from employing the writings for their own ends.

"I believe that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are a forgery … [However,] I believe in the intrinsic, but not in the factual, truth of The Protocols," the future Nazi powerbroker wrote in his diary in 1924.

Greene, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum curator, suggests that an anti-Semitic belief in the intrinsic truth of The Protocols has allowed them to survive and fan the flames of hatred, even among those who know the writings are a forgery.

"That's what is so dangerous today," he said. "Even though The Protocols have been exposed as a fraud, it stands now as a code for those who believe in a Jewish world conspiracy."

Modern supporters include various hate groups and racial supremacists around the world.

The Protocols also have a distinct history of popularity in the Middle East. They appeared in the controversial Egyptian state television miniseries Horseman Without a Horse in 2003 and are referenced in the 1988 charter of Hamas, the militant Islamist group that seeks to establish an Islamic Palestinian state.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's exhibit maintains that The Protocols remain a "mainstream text" in the Arab and Islamic world, and includes new editions published as recently as last year, in addition to the proliferation of Web pages.

But a renowned scholar of the Arab media argues that, while the screed has its supporters, most people today recognize that the book is bogus.

"There is great exaggeration about the spread, popularity, or belief of this book in the Arab countries," said Khaled Hroub, director of the Cambridge Arab Media Project at the University of Cambridge, England.

"Going back a couple of decades ago, the book was more visible and quoted. But now I hardly come across any half-credible writer or speaker who refers to it."

(Learn more about Judaism and Islam.)

Problematic Propaganda

Some ascribe part of the text's lingering popularity to simple prejudice. But according to the Holocaust museum's Greene, some of its appeal lies in its ability to explain a complicated world in a relatively simple way.

He says The Protocols became popular in the aftermath of the 1967 Six Day War between Israel and the Arab states of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Syria.

"People were asking the question, How did this little state win the war so decisively? The answer: There must be a conspiracy."

Hroub, the Cambridge scholar, also believes that some still use the book to rationalize their own beliefs.

"If there is a reference to the book, it is just a metaphor to point at the powerful Jewish lobby in the U.S. and in parts of Europe," he said.

"Many Arabs and Palestinians think that the bias and irrationality of Western foreigners [regarding] the Middle East are inexplicable [except] by acknowledging the existence of strong influence and lobbying of Israel and its Jewish supporters in main Western capitals."

Greene, meanwhile, hopes that the Protocols exhibit will cast light on the larger issue of effective propaganda.

"If a visitor comes out thinking about how propaganda that relies on conspiracy theory works, it would be a great outcome," he said.

Since 1903 The Protocols have been published in many countries and enjoyed some prominent support.

In 1920 U.S. industrialist Henry Ford published excerpts of The Protocols in his newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, and wrote a book that was heavily influenced by the text—The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem.

Protocols of teh Elders of Zion book cover picture

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RELATED

* Egypt Monuments Endangered by Muslim Ruling? (May 2006)
* "National Treasure" Movie: Freemasons, Fact, and Fiction (November 2004)
* Catacomb Find Boosts Early Christian-Jewish Ties, Study Says (July 2005)

Hoax Exposed

Despite their wide distribution, The Protocols have been exposed repeatedly as a hoax.

In 1921 the Times of London published convincing proof that The Protocols were largely plagiarized from books published decades earlier—primarily The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, by Maurice Joly (1864) and Biarritz by Hermann Goedsche (1868).

In subsequent years similar exposés appeared in Germany and the United States. A U.S. Senate committee declared that The Protocols were bogus. And in 1993 they were officially declared fraudulent by a court in the country of their origin—Russia.

Even Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels believed The Protocols were a fraud, though this did not stop Goebbels and the Nazi regime from employing the writings for their own ends.

"I believe that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are a forgery … [However,] I believe in the intrinsic, but not in the factual, truth of The Protocols," the future Nazi powerbroker wrote in his diary in 1924.

Greene, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum curator, suggests that an anti-Semitic belief in the intrinsic truth of The Protocols has allowed them to survive and fan the flames of hatred, even among those who know the writings are a forgery.

"That's what is so dangerous today," he said. "Even though The Protocols have been exposed as a fraud, it stands now as a code for those who believe in a Jewish world conspiracy."

Modern supporters include various hate groups and racial supremacists around the world.

The Protocols also have a distinct history of popularity in the Middle East. They appeared in the controversial Egyptian state television miniseries Horseman Without a Horse in 2003 and are referenced in the 1988 charter of Hamas, the militant Islamist group that seeks to establish an Islamic Palestinian state.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's exhibit maintains that The Protocols remain a "mainstream text" in the Arab and Islamic world, and includes new editions published as recently as last year, in addition to the proliferation of Web pages.

But a renowned scholar of the Arab media argues that, while the screed has its supporters, most people today recognize that the book is bogus.

"There is great exaggeration about the spread, popularity, or belief of this book in the Arab countries," said Khaled Hroub, director of the Cambridge Arab Media Project at the University of Cambridge, England.

"Going back a couple of decades ago, the book was more visible and quoted. But now I hardly come across any half-credible writer or speaker who refers to it."

(Learn more about Judaism and Islam.)

Problematic Propaganda

Some ascribe part of the text's lingering popularity to simple prejudice. But according to the Holocaust museum's Greene, some of its appeal lies in its ability to explain a complicated world in a relatively simple way.

He says The Protocols became popular in the aftermath of the 1967 Six Day War between Israel and the Arab states of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Syria.

"People were asking the question, How did this little state win the war so decisively? The answer: There must be a conspiracy."

Hroub, the Cambridge scholar, also believes that some still use the book to rationalize their own beliefs.

"If there is a reference to the book, it is just a metaphor to point at the powerful Jewish lobby in the U.S. and in parts of Europe," he said.

"Many Arabs and Palestinians think that the bias and irrationality of Western foreigners [regarding] the Middle East are inexplicable [except] by acknowledging the existence of strong influence and lobbying of Israel and its Jewish supporters in main Western capitals."

Greene, meanwhile, hopes that the Protocols exhibit will cast light on the larger issue of effective propaganda.

"If a visitor comes out thinking about how propaganda that relies on conspiracy theory works, it would be a great outcome," he said.

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Mercaz HaRav - a training centre for illegal occupation, murder and "Arabs to the Gas chambers"




Last Updated ( Monday, 10 March 2008 )

A Palestinian killed eight Israeli students in a settler movement training centre, in retaliation for Israel’s massacre of over a hundred Gazans, mostly civilians. Hundreds of the seminary students later chanted “Death to the Arabs” at the gates of their seat of learning.1 This was somehow missed by the BBC.

British prime Minister Gordon Brown, following Bush, hurried to condemn “the murders” of the Israelis at the settlers’ training centre.2 This contrasts with his deep silence during Israel’s recent massacres in Gaza.

The BBC would have us believe that Mercaz HaRav yeshiva is a normal school where 'religious students' 3 pursue esoteric religious studies. In fact Mercaz HaRav is the main educational and training centre of the fanatical Israeli settler movement, Gush Emunim, what the British newspaper,The Independent, somewhat disingenuously calls the “controversial settler movement”. Many Mercaz HaRav graduates fill the ranks of Gush Emunim,4 which organises attacks on Palestinians from Jewish-only military settlements across the West Bank as part of its declared aim of dispossessing Palestinians of 100% of Palestine.5

The parent organisation, Gush Emunim, is heavily armed and carries out the most revolting crimes against innocent Palestinians across the West Bank.6 This writer has visited the Palestinian village of Yanun after settlers had washed their dogs in the Palestinians’ drinking water.7 A Medieval ideology goes hand in hand with Medieval tactics - Hebron settlers poison village wells with putrescent chickens. They beat and shoot Palestinians, poison their sheep,8 generally act like the violent thugs they are. One well-known graduate of Mercaz HaRav, Rabbi Moshe Levinger who founded the colonies of ultras in Hebron was such a vicious psychopath towards Palestinians that he was even found guilty of killing a Palestinian by an Israeli court, for which he served three months in detention.9 Rabbi Levinger was also found guilty of unprovoked assaults on women and children, unusually, since the settlers enjoy complete immunity10; many a Palestinian has been found guilty by the Israeli authorities of beating himself up in the vicinity of Jewish settlers.

The Mercaz HaRav yeshiva is based on contempt for all Gentiles, not only Arabs. This yeshiva was founded by Rabbi A.Y. Kook, and later led by his son, T.Y. Kook. The manner in which young minds are shaped at this Yeshiva can be guessed from one of A.Y.'s spiritual pronouncements, that “The difference between a Jewish soul and souls of non-Jews – all of them in all different levels – is greater and deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of cattle.”11 Kook's classification of Palestinians as non-human allows the graduates of Mercaz HaRav to ignore those commandments that forbid stealing, murder and coveting.

Since non-Jews are similar to another species in the Kooks’ world-view, the very notion of human rights governing the relations between Jews and others is naturally repugnant to his followers; human rights are definitely not on the syllabus at Mercaz HaRav. The Kooks’ primitive god is similar to that of their American Christian fundamentalist counterparts. Both groups of fundamentalists believe that the coming of the Messiah is imminent (they disagree on whether this is a first or a return visit; they also disagree on who should kill or rule over whom at that time) but they agree that the normal forms of human decency are no longer in force. For reasons that need not concern us here, the beginning of the messianic age allows the activation of the rule, as expressed by another unlovely Gush Emunim Rabbi, Shlomo Aviner, that “While God requires other normal nations to abide by abstract codes of justice and righteousness, such laws do not apply to Jews.”12

The suspension of ‘such laws’ extends to non-Jews’ right to live and breathe. Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh, another settler leader, asked pragmatically whether “If a Jew needs a liver, can he take the liver of an innocent non-Jew to save the Jew?”13 He replied in the affirmative, supporting an Israeli fundamentalist theology that should make anyone think twice before taking the kids on that beach holiday in Israel. Palestinians have to take Ginsburgh’s ideas seriously, though, for the learned Rabbi leads a heavily-armed gang of settlers,14 past graduates of the classrooms of yeshuv Mercaz HaRav.

Ginsburgh also defended one particular massacre of Muslims, the killing of 29 Hebronites at prayer in the Al-Ibrahimi mosque, on the religious basis that a Jew is permitted to kill any non-Jew and not be deemed to commit murder. He added, in case anybody didn’t quite get the message, that killing even innocent Palestinians to exact revenge is ‘a Jewish virtue’. Another Mercaz HaRav graduate, Rabbi Dov Lior, in 2004, instructed his settler followers, parents of those killed in the yeshiva recently, that the Israeli occupation forces are allowed to kill innocent Palestinians.15 Mercaz HaRav alumni all sing from the same savage hymn sheet.

Mercaz HaRav graduates don’t just believe they can use your, or any passing Palestinian’s, liver. Gentiles can also be useful to science. The Israeli Attorney General was forced to intervene to bar Rabbi Lior’s election to Israel’s top religious body following concern over his public proposal to use captured Arab ‘terrorists’ to conduct medical experiments.16 (Gush Emunim considers all Palestinians to be 'terrorists'.) Lior is reputed to be the top student of Kook fils. Note that Lior had to be barred by adminstrative methods after he had secured enough votes from his supporters to secure a seat on Israel's Supreme Rabbinical Council.

Lior recognised a kindred spirit in American-Israeli Baruch Goldstein, who murdered the 29 Palestinian worshippers (and wounded another 150) in the Hebron mosque. Lior eulogised the mass killer thus: “Goldstein was full of love for fellow human beings. He dedicated himself to helping others.” 17

The idea of using Arabs for medical experiments ought to be a clue to something bigger. Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky, in Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, spell it out: “the similarities between the Jewish political messianic trend and German Nazism are glaring. The Gentiles are for the messianists what the Jews were for the Nazis.”18 If you think that stealing peoples organs is just your average settler yeshiva ghoulishness, Gush Emunim settlers’ idea of leisure time activities after yeshiva is out is to decorate Palestinian homes in Hebron with "Arabs to the gas chambers".19

The Israeli settlements where Mercaz HaRav sends its graduates are centres of military power and domination of the Palestinians in the West Bank. Since secular Jews are no longer very much interested in building settlements in densely-populated Palestinian areas, where there is a risk of armed Palestinian opposition, only the religious fanatics are prepared to undertake this task. That is why they are so strongly supported by the army20 which is still mainly controlled by secular Zionists.

The Gush Emunim settlers are highly militarised zealots who can be relied upon to fight in the army and to abuse and beat Palestinian ‘cattle’ at the hundreds of checkpoints they help to run across. These zealots are increasing their influence throughout the Israeli military21 as the Labour Zionist-run core of the state is eaten away with corruption and failure to defeat the Palestinians or Hezbollah. Their settlements vote overwhelmingly for ultra-right parties, groups that the late Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz termed “Judeo-Nazis”.22

Why did some Gazans celebrate the Mercaz HaRav attack? We might find an answer if we ask why the US refused to allow the UN Security Council to condemn the Jerusalem Yeshiva and the Gaza killings together.23 The US has a high limit on the number of Palestinian Arabs it allows Israel to kill, and the it doesn't object that some of the huge volume of US arms pumped into Israel find their way to settlers. These thugs combine their guns with creative methods to harm the farmers whose land they covet. When one man strikes back against the most genocidal settler group it is bound to bring a grim satisfaction to those crouching under Israeli-imposed siege in the Gaza Killing Zone. Bush, Brown, the EU, and the UN have delivered these Gazans to Israel’s tender mercies. They well remember the hideous settlers inside Gaza who treated them like 'cattle'.

Jerusalem, like Palestine as a whole, is saturated with armed Jews, uniformed soldiers and police as well as gun-toting settlers. Both groups cooperate to control the Palestinian population, who are kept unarmed in order that they can be dispossessed. This dispossession is achieved by a combination of the illegal occupation’s ‘legal’ means combined with the settlers’ violent extra-legal actions. Any armed Palestinian is killed on sight. Jerusalem, like all of Palestine, pits Jewish supremacism and military power against a colonised population, whose anger at their status and hostility towards their occupiers and violators is natural and healthy. Should they kiss the whip held over their heads? Palestinians continue to resist and we should be inspired by their courage, fortitude and endurance against an enemy that threatens them openly with a ‘Holocaust’.24

Alaa Abu Dheim killed eight students who were being trained to oppress and dispossess him, his family, his entire people. He was himself killed by an armed student. Abu Dheim's sister, Iman, said he had been deeply affected by the Israeli massacres in Gaza. She said her brother had told her "he wasn't able to sleep because of the grief".25 Rafael Eitan, a past Army Chief and Deputy Prime Minister explained the rationale behind Israel's incessant brutality:thew crushing of the Palestinians. “When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle”.26

Israel’s brutality towards Palestinians is a means to the Zionists’ declared end, shared by dominant groups in both secular and religious camps, to dehumanise the ‘cattle’, the ‘cockroaches’. Israel was cleared for immigration in 1948 by terror, and is still to this day based on terror against the entire Palestinian people. Gideon Levy claims that “Most of the delusional right-wing perpetrators and the mongers of hate for Arabs came from this flagship,”27 but the atheists who founded the state of Israel were no slouches at using terror to drive out the natives,28 nor are their secular descendents. 29 Mercaz HaRav graduates, however, take second place to none in the history of Israeli demonization and dispossession of Palestinians.

Mick Napier

(Mick Napier is Chair of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, affiliated to PSC-UK. This article represents his personal views, not necessarily those of the Campaign)


1. http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=357523
2. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...ce-792871.html
3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/7282579.stm
4. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/961727.html
5. Shahak, I. And Mezvinsky, N. (1999) Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, London, Pluto Press, p.20
6. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../29/wmid29.xml
7. http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=1009
8. http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=6967
9. http://www.israelblog.org/Articles/T..._-_Part_1.html
10. http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/tel-rumeida.html
11. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.ix
12. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.71
13. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.43
14. http://www.radioislam.org/historia/z...stalnacht.html
15. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5338.shtml
16. Dov Lior - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
17. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.103
18. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.65
19. http://electronicintifada.net/artman...hambers235.jpg &
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9381.shtml
This writer has seen a lot of this Nazi graffitti by Mercaz HaRav graduates in Hebron.
20. http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/...ow_report.html Western media flag up the risk of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons falling into the hands of fundamentalist Muslim groups in that country, The lunatic graduates of Mercaz HaRav are inching up the ladder of the military of the Israeli nuclear super-power.
21. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.65
22. http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=1798
23. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06272490.htm
24. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/7270650.stm
"We offer our solidarity and support to the victims of this brutality and to those who mount a resistance against it. For our part, we will use all the means at our disposal to expose the complicity of our governments in these crimes. There will be no peace in the Middle East while the occupations of Palestine and Iraq and the temporarily "paused" bombings of Lebanon continue.
Tariq Ali / Noam Chomsky / Eduardo Galeano / Howard Zinn / Ken Loach / John Berger &
Arundhati Roy
25. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7366776
26. http://www.washington-report.org/arc...5/0501021.html
27. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/962041.html
28. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n01/papp01_.html
29. http://www.caiaweb.org/files/UriDavis-CanadaPark.pdf

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Last Updated ( Monday, 10 March 2008 )

A Palestinian killed eight Israeli students in a settler movement training centre, in retaliation for Israel’s massacre of over a hundred Gazans, mostly civilians. Hundreds of the seminary students later chanted “Death to the Arabs” at the gates of their seat of learning.1 This was somehow missed by the BBC.

British prime Minister Gordon Brown, following Bush, hurried to condemn “the murders” of the Israelis at the settlers’ training centre.2 This contrasts with his deep silence during Israel’s recent massacres in Gaza.

The BBC would have us believe that Mercaz HaRav yeshiva is a normal school where 'religious students' 3 pursue esoteric religious studies. In fact Mercaz HaRav is the main educational and training centre of the fanatical Israeli settler movement, Gush Emunim, what the British newspaper,The Independent, somewhat disingenuously calls the “controversial settler movement”. Many Mercaz HaRav graduates fill the ranks of Gush Emunim,4 which organises attacks on Palestinians from Jewish-only military settlements across the West Bank as part of its declared aim of dispossessing Palestinians of 100% of Palestine.5

The parent organisation, Gush Emunim, is heavily armed and carries out the most revolting crimes against innocent Palestinians across the West Bank.6 This writer has visited the Palestinian village of Yanun after settlers had washed their dogs in the Palestinians’ drinking water.7 A Medieval ideology goes hand in hand with Medieval tactics - Hebron settlers poison village wells with putrescent chickens. They beat and shoot Palestinians, poison their sheep,8 generally act like the violent thugs they are. One well-known graduate of Mercaz HaRav, Rabbi Moshe Levinger who founded the colonies of ultras in Hebron was such a vicious psychopath towards Palestinians that he was even found guilty of killing a Palestinian by an Israeli court, for which he served three months in detention.9 Rabbi Levinger was also found guilty of unprovoked assaults on women and children, unusually, since the settlers enjoy complete immunity10; many a Palestinian has been found guilty by the Israeli authorities of beating himself up in the vicinity of Jewish settlers.

The Mercaz HaRav yeshiva is based on contempt for all Gentiles, not only Arabs. This yeshiva was founded by Rabbi A.Y. Kook, and later led by his son, T.Y. Kook. The manner in which young minds are shaped at this Yeshiva can be guessed from one of A.Y.'s spiritual pronouncements, that “The difference between a Jewish soul and souls of non-Jews – all of them in all different levels – is greater and deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of cattle.”11 Kook's classification of Palestinians as non-human allows the graduates of Mercaz HaRav to ignore those commandments that forbid stealing, murder and coveting.

Since non-Jews are similar to another species in the Kooks’ world-view, the very notion of human rights governing the relations between Jews and others is naturally repugnant to his followers; human rights are definitely not on the syllabus at Mercaz HaRav. The Kooks’ primitive god is similar to that of their American Christian fundamentalist counterparts. Both groups of fundamentalists believe that the coming of the Messiah is imminent (they disagree on whether this is a first or a return visit; they also disagree on who should kill or rule over whom at that time) but they agree that the normal forms of human decency are no longer in force. For reasons that need not concern us here, the beginning of the messianic age allows the activation of the rule, as expressed by another unlovely Gush Emunim Rabbi, Shlomo Aviner, that “While God requires other normal nations to abide by abstract codes of justice and righteousness, such laws do not apply to Jews.”12

The suspension of ‘such laws’ extends to non-Jews’ right to live and breathe. Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh, another settler leader, asked pragmatically whether “If a Jew needs a liver, can he take the liver of an innocent non-Jew to save the Jew?”13 He replied in the affirmative, supporting an Israeli fundamentalist theology that should make anyone think twice before taking the kids on that beach holiday in Israel. Palestinians have to take Ginsburgh’s ideas seriously, though, for the learned Rabbi leads a heavily-armed gang of settlers,14 past graduates of the classrooms of yeshuv Mercaz HaRav.

Ginsburgh also defended one particular massacre of Muslims, the killing of 29 Hebronites at prayer in the Al-Ibrahimi mosque, on the religious basis that a Jew is permitted to kill any non-Jew and not be deemed to commit murder. He added, in case anybody didn’t quite get the message, that killing even innocent Palestinians to exact revenge is ‘a Jewish virtue’. Another Mercaz HaRav graduate, Rabbi Dov Lior, in 2004, instructed his settler followers, parents of those killed in the yeshiva recently, that the Israeli occupation forces are allowed to kill innocent Palestinians.15 Mercaz HaRav alumni all sing from the same savage hymn sheet.

Mercaz HaRav graduates don’t just believe they can use your, or any passing Palestinian’s, liver. Gentiles can also be useful to science. The Israeli Attorney General was forced to intervene to bar Rabbi Lior’s election to Israel’s top religious body following concern over his public proposal to use captured Arab ‘terrorists’ to conduct medical experiments.16 (Gush Emunim considers all Palestinians to be 'terrorists'.) Lior is reputed to be the top student of Kook fils. Note that Lior had to be barred by adminstrative methods after he had secured enough votes from his supporters to secure a seat on Israel's Supreme Rabbinical Council.

Lior recognised a kindred spirit in American-Israeli Baruch Goldstein, who murdered the 29 Palestinian worshippers (and wounded another 150) in the Hebron mosque. Lior eulogised the mass killer thus: “Goldstein was full of love for fellow human beings. He dedicated himself to helping others.” 17

The idea of using Arabs for medical experiments ought to be a clue to something bigger. Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky, in Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, spell it out: “the similarities between the Jewish political messianic trend and German Nazism are glaring. The Gentiles are for the messianists what the Jews were for the Nazis.”18 If you think that stealing peoples organs is just your average settler yeshiva ghoulishness, Gush Emunim settlers’ idea of leisure time activities after yeshiva is out is to decorate Palestinian homes in Hebron with "Arabs to the gas chambers".19

The Israeli settlements where Mercaz HaRav sends its graduates are centres of military power and domination of the Palestinians in the West Bank. Since secular Jews are no longer very much interested in building settlements in densely-populated Palestinian areas, where there is a risk of armed Palestinian opposition, only the religious fanatics are prepared to undertake this task. That is why they are so strongly supported by the army20 which is still mainly controlled by secular Zionists.

The Gush Emunim settlers are highly militarised zealots who can be relied upon to fight in the army and to abuse and beat Palestinian ‘cattle’ at the hundreds of checkpoints they help to run across. These zealots are increasing their influence throughout the Israeli military21 as the Labour Zionist-run core of the state is eaten away with corruption and failure to defeat the Palestinians or Hezbollah. Their settlements vote overwhelmingly for ultra-right parties, groups that the late Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz termed “Judeo-Nazis”.22

Why did some Gazans celebrate the Mercaz HaRav attack? We might find an answer if we ask why the US refused to allow the UN Security Council to condemn the Jerusalem Yeshiva and the Gaza killings together.23 The US has a high limit on the number of Palestinian Arabs it allows Israel to kill, and the it doesn't object that some of the huge volume of US arms pumped into Israel find their way to settlers. These thugs combine their guns with creative methods to harm the farmers whose land they covet. When one man strikes back against the most genocidal settler group it is bound to bring a grim satisfaction to those crouching under Israeli-imposed siege in the Gaza Killing Zone. Bush, Brown, the EU, and the UN have delivered these Gazans to Israel’s tender mercies. They well remember the hideous settlers inside Gaza who treated them like 'cattle'.

Jerusalem, like Palestine as a whole, is saturated with armed Jews, uniformed soldiers and police as well as gun-toting settlers. Both groups cooperate to control the Palestinian population, who are kept unarmed in order that they can be dispossessed. This dispossession is achieved by a combination of the illegal occupation’s ‘legal’ means combined with the settlers’ violent extra-legal actions. Any armed Palestinian is killed on sight. Jerusalem, like all of Palestine, pits Jewish supremacism and military power against a colonised population, whose anger at their status and hostility towards their occupiers and violators is natural and healthy. Should they kiss the whip held over their heads? Palestinians continue to resist and we should be inspired by their courage, fortitude and endurance against an enemy that threatens them openly with a ‘Holocaust’.24

Alaa Abu Dheim killed eight students who were being trained to oppress and dispossess him, his family, his entire people. He was himself killed by an armed student. Abu Dheim's sister, Iman, said he had been deeply affected by the Israeli massacres in Gaza. She said her brother had told her "he wasn't able to sleep because of the grief".25 Rafael Eitan, a past Army Chief and Deputy Prime Minister explained the rationale behind Israel's incessant brutality:thew crushing of the Palestinians. “When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle”.26

Israel’s brutality towards Palestinians is a means to the Zionists’ declared end, shared by dominant groups in both secular and religious camps, to dehumanise the ‘cattle’, the ‘cockroaches’. Israel was cleared for immigration in 1948 by terror, and is still to this day based on terror against the entire Palestinian people. Gideon Levy claims that “Most of the delusional right-wing perpetrators and the mongers of hate for Arabs came from this flagship,”27 but the atheists who founded the state of Israel were no slouches at using terror to drive out the natives,28 nor are their secular descendents. 29 Mercaz HaRav graduates, however, take second place to none in the history of Israeli demonization and dispossession of Palestinians.

Mick Napier

(Mick Napier is Chair of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, affiliated to PSC-UK. This article represents his personal views, not necessarily those of the Campaign)


1. http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=357523
2. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...ce-792871.html
3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/7282579.stm
4. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/961727.html
5. Shahak, I. And Mezvinsky, N. (1999) Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, London, Pluto Press, p.20
6. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../29/wmid29.xml
7. http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=1009
8. http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=6967
9. http://www.israelblog.org/Articles/T..._-_Part_1.html
10. http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/tel-rumeida.html
11. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.ix
12. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.71
13. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.43
14. http://www.radioislam.org/historia/z...stalnacht.html
15. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5338.shtml
16. Dov Lior - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
17. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.103
18. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.65
19. http://electronicintifada.net/artman...hambers235.jpg &
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9381.shtml
This writer has seen a lot of this Nazi graffitti by Mercaz HaRav graduates in Hebron.
20. http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/...ow_report.html Western media flag up the risk of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons falling into the hands of fundamentalist Muslim groups in that country, The lunatic graduates of Mercaz HaRav are inching up the ladder of the military of the Israeli nuclear super-power.
21. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.65
22. http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=1798
23. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06272490.htm
24. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/7270650.stm
"We offer our solidarity and support to the victims of this brutality and to those who mount a resistance against it. For our part, we will use all the means at our disposal to expose the complicity of our governments in these crimes. There will be no peace in the Middle East while the occupations of Palestine and Iraq and the temporarily "paused" bombings of Lebanon continue.
Tariq Ali / Noam Chomsky / Eduardo Galeano / Howard Zinn / Ken Loach / John Berger &
Arundhati Roy
25. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7366776
26. http://www.washington-report.org/arc...5/0501021.html
27. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/962041.html
28. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n01/papp01_.html
29. http://www.caiaweb.org/files/UriDavis-CanadaPark.pdf

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Last Updated ( Monday, 10 March 2008 )

A Palestinian killed eight Israeli students in a settler movement training centre, in retaliation for Israel’s massacre of over a hundred Gazans, mostly civilians. Hundreds of the seminary students later chanted “Death to the Arabs” at the gates of their seat of learning.1 This was somehow missed by the BBC.

British prime Minister Gordon Brown, following Bush, hurried to condemn “the murders” of the Israelis at the settlers’ training centre.2 This contrasts with his deep silence during Israel’s recent massacres in Gaza.

The BBC would have us believe that Mercaz HaRav yeshiva is a normal school where 'religious students' 3 pursue esoteric religious studies. In fact Mercaz HaRav is the main educational and training centre of the fanatical Israeli settler movement, Gush Emunim, what the British newspaper,The Independent, somewhat disingenuously calls the “controversial settler movement”. Many Mercaz HaRav graduates fill the ranks of Gush Emunim,4 which organises attacks on Palestinians from Jewish-only military settlements across the West Bank as part of its declared aim of dispossessing Palestinians of 100% of Palestine.5

The parent organisation, Gush Emunim, is heavily armed and carries out the most revolting crimes against innocent Palestinians across the West Bank.6 This writer has visited the Palestinian village of Yanun after settlers had washed their dogs in the Palestinians’ drinking water.7 A Medieval ideology goes hand in hand with Medieval tactics - Hebron settlers poison village wells with putrescent chickens. They beat and shoot Palestinians, poison their sheep,8 generally act like the violent thugs they are. One well-known graduate of Mercaz HaRav, Rabbi Moshe Levinger who founded the colonies of ultras in Hebron was such a vicious psychopath towards Palestinians that he was even found guilty of killing a Palestinian by an Israeli court, for which he served three months in detention.9 Rabbi Levinger was also found guilty of unprovoked assaults on women and children, unusually, since the settlers enjoy complete immunity10; many a Palestinian has been found guilty by the Israeli authorities of beating himself up in the vicinity of Jewish settlers.

The Mercaz HaRav yeshiva is based on contempt for all Gentiles, not only Arabs. This yeshiva was founded by Rabbi A.Y. Kook, and later led by his son, T.Y. Kook. The manner in which young minds are shaped at this Yeshiva can be guessed from one of A.Y.'s spiritual pronouncements, that “The difference between a Jewish soul and souls of non-Jews – all of them in all different levels – is greater and deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of cattle.”11 Kook's classification of Palestinians as non-human allows the graduates of Mercaz HaRav to ignore those commandments that forbid stealing, murder and coveting.

Since non-Jews are similar to another species in the Kooks’ world-view, the very notion of human rights governing the relations between Jews and others is naturally repugnant to his followers; human rights are definitely not on the syllabus at Mercaz HaRav. The Kooks’ primitive god is similar to that of their American Christian fundamentalist counterparts. Both groups of fundamentalists believe that the coming of the Messiah is imminent (they disagree on whether this is a first or a return visit; they also disagree on who should kill or rule over whom at that time) but they agree that the normal forms of human decency are no longer in force. For reasons that need not concern us here, the beginning of the messianic age allows the activation of the rule, as expressed by another unlovely Gush Emunim Rabbi, Shlomo Aviner, that “While God requires other normal nations to abide by abstract codes of justice and righteousness, such laws do not apply to Jews.”12

The suspension of ‘such laws’ extends to non-Jews’ right to live and breathe. Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh, another settler leader, asked pragmatically whether “If a Jew needs a liver, can he take the liver of an innocent non-Jew to save the Jew?”13 He replied in the affirmative, supporting an Israeli fundamentalist theology that should make anyone think twice before taking the kids on that beach holiday in Israel. Palestinians have to take Ginsburgh’s ideas seriously, though, for the learned Rabbi leads a heavily-armed gang of settlers,14 past graduates of the classrooms of yeshuv Mercaz HaRav.

Ginsburgh also defended one particular massacre of Muslims, the killing of 29 Hebronites at prayer in the Al-Ibrahimi mosque, on the religious basis that a Jew is permitted to kill any non-Jew and not be deemed to commit murder. He added, in case anybody didn’t quite get the message, that killing even innocent Palestinians to exact revenge is ‘a Jewish virtue’. Another Mercaz HaRav graduate, Rabbi Dov Lior, in 2004, instructed his settler followers, parents of those killed in the yeshiva recently, that the Israeli occupation forces are allowed to kill innocent Palestinians.15 Mercaz HaRav alumni all sing from the same savage hymn sheet.

Mercaz HaRav graduates don’t just believe they can use your, or any passing Palestinian’s, liver. Gentiles can also be useful to science. The Israeli Attorney General was forced to intervene to bar Rabbi Lior’s election to Israel’s top religious body following concern over his public proposal to use captured Arab ‘terrorists’ to conduct medical experiments.16 (Gush Emunim considers all Palestinians to be 'terrorists'.) Lior is reputed to be the top student of Kook fils. Note that Lior had to be barred by adminstrative methods after he had secured enough votes from his supporters to secure a seat on Israel's Supreme Rabbinical Council.

Lior recognised a kindred spirit in American-Israeli Baruch Goldstein, who murdered the 29 Palestinian worshippers (and wounded another 150) in the Hebron mosque. Lior eulogised the mass killer thus: “Goldstein was full of love for fellow human beings. He dedicated himself to helping others.” 17

The idea of using Arabs for medical experiments ought to be a clue to something bigger. Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky, in Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, spell it out: “the similarities between the Jewish political messianic trend and German Nazism are glaring. The Gentiles are for the messianists what the Jews were for the Nazis.”18 If you think that stealing peoples organs is just your average settler yeshiva ghoulishness, Gush Emunim settlers’ idea of leisure time activities after yeshiva is out is to decorate Palestinian homes in Hebron with "Arabs to the gas chambers".19

The Israeli settlements where Mercaz HaRav sends its graduates are centres of military power and domination of the Palestinians in the West Bank. Since secular Jews are no longer very much interested in building settlements in densely-populated Palestinian areas, where there is a risk of armed Palestinian opposition, only the religious fanatics are prepared to undertake this task. That is why they are so strongly supported by the army20 which is still mainly controlled by secular Zionists.

The Gush Emunim settlers are highly militarised zealots who can be relied upon to fight in the army and to abuse and beat Palestinian ‘cattle’ at the hundreds of checkpoints they help to run across. These zealots are increasing their influence throughout the Israeli military21 as the Labour Zionist-run core of the state is eaten away with corruption and failure to defeat the Palestinians or Hezbollah. Their settlements vote overwhelmingly for ultra-right parties, groups that the late Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz termed “Judeo-Nazis”.22

Why did some Gazans celebrate the Mercaz HaRav attack? We might find an answer if we ask why the US refused to allow the UN Security Council to condemn the Jerusalem Yeshiva and the Gaza killings together.23 The US has a high limit on the number of Palestinian Arabs it allows Israel to kill, and the it doesn't object that some of the huge volume of US arms pumped into Israel find their way to settlers. These thugs combine their guns with creative methods to harm the farmers whose land they covet. When one man strikes back against the most genocidal settler group it is bound to bring a grim satisfaction to those crouching under Israeli-imposed siege in the Gaza Killing Zone. Bush, Brown, the EU, and the UN have delivered these Gazans to Israel’s tender mercies. They well remember the hideous settlers inside Gaza who treated them like 'cattle'.

Jerusalem, like Palestine as a whole, is saturated with armed Jews, uniformed soldiers and police as well as gun-toting settlers. Both groups cooperate to control the Palestinian population, who are kept unarmed in order that they can be dispossessed. This dispossession is achieved by a combination of the illegal occupation’s ‘legal’ means combined with the settlers’ violent extra-legal actions. Any armed Palestinian is killed on sight. Jerusalem, like all of Palestine, pits Jewish supremacism and military power against a colonised population, whose anger at their status and hostility towards their occupiers and violators is natural and healthy. Should they kiss the whip held over their heads? Palestinians continue to resist and we should be inspired by their courage, fortitude and endurance against an enemy that threatens them openly with a ‘Holocaust’.24

Alaa Abu Dheim killed eight students who were being trained to oppress and dispossess him, his family, his entire people. He was himself killed by an armed student. Abu Dheim's sister, Iman, said he had been deeply affected by the Israeli massacres in Gaza. She said her brother had told her "he wasn't able to sleep because of the grief".25 Rafael Eitan, a past Army Chief and Deputy Prime Minister explained the rationale behind Israel's incessant brutality:thew crushing of the Palestinians. “When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle”.26

Israel’s brutality towards Palestinians is a means to the Zionists’ declared end, shared by dominant groups in both secular and religious camps, to dehumanise the ‘cattle’, the ‘cockroaches’. Israel was cleared for immigration in 1948 by terror, and is still to this day based on terror against the entire Palestinian people. Gideon Levy claims that “Most of the delusional right-wing perpetrators and the mongers of hate for Arabs came from this flagship,”27 but the atheists who founded the state of Israel were no slouches at using terror to drive out the natives,28 nor are their secular descendents. 29 Mercaz HaRav graduates, however, take second place to none in the history of Israeli demonization and dispossession of Palestinians.

Mick Napier

(Mick Napier is Chair of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, affiliated to PSC-UK. This article represents his personal views, not necessarily those of the Campaign)


1. http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=357523
2. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...ce-792871.html
3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/7282579.stm
4. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/961727.html
5. Shahak, I. And Mezvinsky, N. (1999) Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, London, Pluto Press, p.20
6. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../29/wmid29.xml
7. http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=1009
8. http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=6967
9. http://www.israelblog.org/Articles/T..._-_Part_1.html
10. http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/tel-rumeida.html
11. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.ix
12. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.71
13. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.43
14. http://www.radioislam.org/historia/z...stalnacht.html
15. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5338.shtml
16. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Lior
17. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.103
18. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.65
19. http://electronicintifada.net/artman...hambers235.jpg &
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9381.shtml
This writer has seen a lot of this Nazi graffitti by Mercaz HaRav graduates in Hebron.
20. http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/...ow_report.html Western media flag up the risk of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons falling into the hands of fundamentalist Muslim groups in that country, The lunatic graduates of Mercaz HaRav are inching up the ladder of the military of the Israeli nuclear super-power.
21. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.65
22. http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=1798
23. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06272490.htm
24. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/7270650.stm
"We offer our solidarity and support to the victims of this brutality and to those who mount a resistance against it. For our part, we will use all the means at our disposal to expose the complicity of our governments in these crimes. There will be no peace in the Middle East while the occupations of Palestine and Iraq and the temporarily "paused" bombings of Lebanon continue.
Tariq Ali / Noam Chomsky / Eduardo Galeano / Howard Zinn / Ken Loach / John Berger &
Arundhati Roy
25. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7366776
26. http://www.washington-report.org/arc...5/0501021.html
27. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/962041.html
28. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n01/papp01_.html
29. http://www.caiaweb.org/files/UriDavis-CanadaPark.pdf

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Last Updated ( Monday, 10 March 2008 )

A Palestinian killed eight Israeli students in a settler movement training centre, in retaliation for Israel’s massacre of over a hundred Gazans, mostly civilians. Hundreds of the seminary students later chanted “Death to the Arabs” at the gates of their seat of learning.1 This was somehow missed by the BBC.

British prime Minister Gordon Brown, following Bush, hurried to condemn “the murders” of the Israelis at the settlers’ training centre.2 This contrasts with his deep silence during Israel’s recent massacres in Gaza.

The BBC would have us believe that Mercaz HaRav yeshiva is a normal school where 'religious students' 3 pursue esoteric religious studies. In fact Mercaz HaRav is the main educational and training centre of the fanatical Israeli settler movement, Gush Emunim, what the British newspaper,The Independent, somewhat disingenuously calls the “controversial settler movement”. Many Mercaz HaRav graduates fill the ranks of Gush Emunim,4 which organises attacks on Palestinians from Jewish-only military settlements across the West Bank as part of its declared aim of dispossessing Palestinians of 100% of Palestine.5

The parent organisation, Gush Emunim, is heavily armed and carries out the most revolting crimes against innocent Palestinians across the West Bank.6 This writer has visited the Palestinian village of Yanun after settlers had washed their dogs in the Palestinians’ drinking water.7 A Medieval ideology goes hand in hand with Medieval tactics - Hebron settlers poison village wells with putrescent chickens. They beat and shoot Palestinians, poison their sheep,8 generally act like the violent thugs they are. One well-known graduate of Mercaz HaRav, Rabbi Moshe Levinger who founded the colonies of ultras in Hebron was such a vicious psychopath towards Palestinians that he was even found guilty of killing a Palestinian by an Israeli court, for which he served three months in detention.9 Rabbi Levinger was also found guilty of unprovoked assaults on women and children, unusually, since the settlers enjoy complete immunity10; many a Palestinian has been found guilty by the Israeli authorities of beating himself up in the vicinity of Jewish settlers.

The Mercaz HaRav yeshiva is based on contempt for all Gentiles, not only Arabs. This yeshiva was founded by Rabbi A.Y. Kook, and later led by his son, T.Y. Kook. The manner in which young minds are shaped at this Yeshiva can be guessed from one of A.Y.'s spiritual pronouncements, that “The difference between a Jewish soul and souls of non-Jews – all of them in all different levels – is greater and deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of cattle.”11 Kook's classification of Palestinians as non-human allows the graduates of Mercaz HaRav to ignore those commandments that forbid stealing, murder and coveting.

Since non-Jews are similar to another species in the Kooks’ world-view, the very notion of human rights governing the relations between Jews and others is naturally repugnant to his followers; human rights are definitely not on the syllabus at Mercaz HaRav. The Kooks’ primitive god is similar to that of their American Christian fundamentalist counterparts. Both groups of fundamentalists believe that the coming of the Messiah is imminent (they disagree on whether this is a first or a return visit; they also disagree on who should kill or rule over whom at that time) but they agree that the normal forms of human decency are no longer in force. For reasons that need not concern us here, the beginning of the messianic age allows the activation of the rule, as expressed by another unlovely Gush Emunim Rabbi, Shlomo Aviner, that “While God requires other normal nations to abide by abstract codes of justice and righteousness, such laws do not apply to Jews.”12

The suspension of ‘such laws’ extends to non-Jews’ right to live and breathe. Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh, another settler leader, asked pragmatically whether “If a Jew needs a liver, can he take the liver of an innocent non-Jew to save the Jew?”13 He replied in the affirmative, supporting an Israeli fundamentalist theology that should make anyone think twice before taking the kids on that beach holiday in Israel. Palestinians have to take Ginsburgh’s ideas seriously, though, for the learned Rabbi leads a heavily-armed gang of settlers,14 past graduates of the classrooms of yeshuv Mercaz HaRav.

Ginsburgh also defended one particular massacre of Muslims, the killing of 29 Hebronites at prayer in the Al-Ibrahimi mosque, on the religious basis that a Jew is permitted to kill any non-Jew and not be deemed to commit murder. He added, in case anybody didn’t quite get the message, that killing even innocent Palestinians to exact revenge is ‘a Jewish virtue’. Another Mercaz HaRav graduate, Rabbi Dov Lior, in 2004, instructed his settler followers, parents of those killed in the yeshiva recently, that the Israeli occupation forces are allowed to kill innocent Palestinians.15 Mercaz HaRav alumni all sing from the same savage hymn sheet.

Mercaz HaRav graduates don’t just believe they can use your, or any passing Palestinian’s, liver. Gentiles can also be useful to science. The Israeli Attorney General was forced to intervene to bar Rabbi Lior’s election to Israel’s top religious body following concern over his public proposal to use captured Arab ‘terrorists’ to conduct medical experiments.16 (Gush Emunim considers all Palestinians to be 'terrorists'.) Lior is reputed to be the top student of Kook fils. Note that Lior had to be barred by adminstrative methods after he had secured enough votes from his supporters to secure a seat on Israel's Supreme Rabbinical Council.

Lior recognised a kindred spirit in American-Israeli Baruch Goldstein, who murdered the 29 Palestinian worshippers (and wounded another 150) in the Hebron mosque. Lior eulogised the mass killer thus: “Goldstein was full of love for fellow human beings. He dedicated himself to helping others.” 17

The idea of using Arabs for medical experiments ought to be a clue to something bigger. Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky, in Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, spell it out: “the similarities between the Jewish political messianic trend and German Nazism are glaring. The Gentiles are for the messianists what the Jews were for the Nazis.”18 If you think that stealing peoples organs is just your average settler yeshiva ghoulishness, Gush Emunim settlers’ idea of leisure time activities after yeshiva is out is to decorate Palestinian homes in Hebron with "Arabs to the gas chambers".19

The Israeli settlements where Mercaz HaRav sends its graduates are centres of military power and domination of the Palestinians in the West Bank. Since secular Jews are no longer very much interested in building settlements in densely-populated Palestinian areas, where there is a risk of armed Palestinian opposition, only the religious fanatics are prepared to undertake this task. That is why they are so strongly supported by the army20 which is still mainly controlled by secular Zionists.

The Gush Emunim settlers are highly militarised zealots who can be relied upon to fight in the army and to abuse and beat Palestinian ‘cattle’ at the hundreds of checkpoints they help to run across. These zealots are increasing their influence throughout the Israeli military21 as the Labour Zionist-run core of the state is eaten away with corruption and failure to defeat the Palestinians or Hezbollah. Their settlements vote overwhelmingly for ultra-right parties, groups that the late Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz termed “Judeo-Nazis”.22

Why did some Gazans celebrate the Mercaz HaRav attack? We might find an answer if we ask why the US refused to allow the UN Security Council to condemn the Jerusalem Yeshiva and the Gaza killings together.23 The US has a high limit on the number of Palestinian Arabs it allows Israel to kill, and the it doesn't object that some of the huge volume of US arms pumped into Israel find their way to settlers. These thugs combine their guns with creative methods to harm the farmers whose land they covet. When one man strikes back against the most genocidal settler group it is bound to bring a grim satisfaction to those crouching under Israeli-imposed siege in the Gaza Killing Zone. Bush, Brown, the EU, and the UN have delivered these Gazans to Israel’s tender mercies. They well remember the hideous settlers inside Gaza who treated them like 'cattle'.

Jerusalem, like Palestine as a whole, is saturated with armed Jews, uniformed soldiers and police as well as gun-toting settlers. Both groups cooperate to control the Palestinian population, who are kept unarmed in order that they can be dispossessed. This dispossession is achieved by a combination of the illegal occupation’s ‘legal’ means combined with the settlers’ violent extra-legal actions. Any armed Palestinian is killed on sight. Jerusalem, like all of Palestine, pits Jewish supremacism and military power against a colonised population, whose anger at their status and hostility towards their occupiers and violators is natural and healthy. Should they kiss the whip held over their heads? Palestinians continue to resist and we should be inspired by their courage, fortitude and endurance against an enemy that threatens them openly with a ‘Holocaust’.24

Alaa Abu Dheim killed eight students who were being trained to oppress and dispossess him, his family, his entire people. He was himself killed by an armed student. Abu Dheim's sister, Iman, said he had been deeply affected by the Israeli massacres in Gaza. She said her brother had told her "he wasn't able to sleep because of the grief".25 Rafael Eitan, a past Army Chief and Deputy Prime Minister explained the rationale behind Israel's incessant brutality:thew crushing of the Palestinians. “When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle”.26

Israel’s brutality towards Palestinians is a means to the Zionists’ declared end, shared by dominant groups in both secular and religious camps, to dehumanise the ‘cattle’, the ‘cockroaches’. Israel was cleared for immigration in 1948 by terror, and is still to this day based on terror against the entire Palestinian people. Gideon Levy claims that “Most of the delusional right-wing perpetrators and the mongers of hate for Arabs came from this flagship,”27 but the atheists who founded the state of Israel were no slouches at using terror to drive out the natives,28 nor are their secular descendents. 29 Mercaz HaRav graduates, however, take second place to none in the history of Israeli demonization and dispossession of Palestinians.

Mick Napier

(Mick Napier is Chair of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, affiliated to PSC-UK. This article represents his personal views, not necessarily those of the Campaign)


1. http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=357523
2. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...ce-792871.html
3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/7282579.stm
4. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/961727.html
5. Shahak, I. And Mezvinsky, N. (1999) Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, London, Pluto Press, p.20
6. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../29/wmid29.xml
7. http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=1009
8. http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=6967
9. http://www.israelblog.org/Articles/T..._-_Part_1.html
10. http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/tel-rumeida.html
11. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.ix
12. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.71
13. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.43
14. http://www.radioislam.org/historia/z...stalnacht.html
15. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5338.shtml
16. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Lior
17. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.103
18. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.65
19. http://electronicintifada.net/artman...hambers235.jpg &
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9381.shtml
This writer has seen a lot of this Nazi graffitti by Mercaz HaRav graduates in Hebron.
20. http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/...ow_report.html Western media flag up the risk of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons falling into the hands of fundamentalist Muslim groups in that country, The lunatic graduates of Mercaz HaRav are inching up the ladder of the military of the Israeli nuclear super-power.
21. Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.65
22. http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=1798
23. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06272490.htm
24. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/7270650.stm
"We offer our solidarity and support to the victims of this brutality and to those who mount a resistance against it. For our part, we will use all the means at our disposal to expose the complicity of our governments in these crimes. There will be no peace in the Middle East while the occupations of Palestine and Iraq and the temporarily "paused" bombings of Lebanon continue.
Tariq Ali / Noam Chomsky / Eduardo Galeano / Howard Zinn / Ken Loach / John Berger &
Arundhati Roy
25. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7366776
26. http://www.washington-report.org/arc...5/0501021.html
27. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/962041.html
28. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n01/papp01_.html
29. http://www.caiaweb.org/files/UriDavis-CanadaPark.pdf

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You do realize you posted this twice?

[supertzar]

How do we know that the Elders of Zion, if indeed there was such a group, did not plagiarize those works themselves?

[intruder]

some have said that the Jesuits penned it. regardless, it makes for a BRILLIANT study!! It's amazing how schools SHUN the "teaching" or analyzing of it. Why would you NOT want to study the language of your enemy. If it's such an enduring "fiction"...bring it to the table and study it.

AS you may know, William Cooper included the protocols in his book Behold A Pale Horse but asked his readers to substitute the word "illuminati" whenever they read "jews" and to substitute the word "cattle" whenever they read "goyim".

[intruder]

would there be opposition to the protocols if every time you read "jews" you actually read the word "germans"? Would "they" not want to hold it up as a brilliant yet diabolical product of the times....self-evident, and in no need of further clarification or debunking?

[mynameis]

would there be opposition to the protocols if every time you read "jews" you actually read the word "germans"? Would "they" not want to hold it up as a brilliant yet diabolical product of the times....self-evident, and in no need of further clarification or debunking?

As a work of fiction you could replace Jewish and Zion with Aryan and Whites and still get the same effect. Then point out all the areas the white Christian's and Catholics infiltrate like in the protocols. Not unlike the UK and the US governments. "Protocols of the Aryan Elder Brotherhood," sounds nasty doesn't it. It starts by conquering through 10 steps over many years for white world domination and the elimination of all other countries. Whites are taking over everything. They make pornography. They control governments and the banks. Whites work and own major media companies like News Corporation. They are controlling all you see and hear. Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly are white Aryans. George Bush white Aryan, Angel Merkel a white Aryan, Vladimir Putin a white Aryan....There are so many white Aryans in positions of power. Even Alex Jones a white Aryan. David Icke a white Aryan. Larry Flynt a white Aryan. Everything Aryan's touch they destroy. They are a vile despicable people who use cunning and slyness to achieve and take from other people like the Native Americans, Africans, and the Chinese and Asians. Malcolm was right we need to destroy white Aryanism by any means necessary. /sarcasm



See my point.

[montag]

You do realize you posted this twice?
Three times thanks to your quote.

[synergy777]

the protocols of zion were an elite creation to marginalise jews. they had to pin it someone so they took advantage of peoples anti semetic views and blamed it on the jews. like they blamed slavery on white christians/curse of ham.

all this is elite divide and rule, they use religions/nationalities as a cover.

they hardly going to title it "the elites protocols" etc.

[montag]

the protocols of zion were an elite creation to marginalise jews. they had to pin it someone so they took advantage of peoples anti semetic views and blamed it on the jews. like they blamed slavery on white christians/curse of ham.

all this is elite divide and rule, they use religions/nationalities as a cover.

they hardly going to title it "the elites protocols" etc.
DING! Correct answer..

[synergy777]

accuracy and objectivity,

spock/data

[zero1]

For every forgery, there's an original...The Protocols have never been declared fraudulent, only a "forgery". In legalism, a Forgery is a bad or Inexact Copy of a real and binding document! Study the law, and the ruling of the Russian court...

It is not unreasonable to notice that much of what is planned and intended in the Protocols is actually coming true in the world, right now...irony? I don't think so. They got Israel out of WWII, no?

Nonetheless, if there were a World Jewry conspiracy, it's practically an act of self-destructive guilt to say so, in the modern climate.

And if there isn't, such is the lot of Jews that they'll be blamed anyway. Perhaps rightly, perhaps not...it won't matter if there's enough anger and resentment.

But Jewish things don't interest me. Why should they? I'M not a Jew, I don't personally know any Jews, and if I did I'll bet that beyond being human I wouldn't have much in common with them.

But alas, some Jews genuinely do believe in the inferiority of non-Jews. The term "Goyim", meaning cattle or more specifically Livestock, applied to non-Jews makes us nothing less than animals and economic units in the eyes of some extremist Jewish racists. Jewish racists who themselves are anti-semites (ironically), as they butcher Arabs and other Semites to bloody their newfound homeland.

Sad. I hope G-d is ashamed of them.

[synergy777]

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=8212

Rabbi: Terror attack was punishment for rebellion against Torah
Yair Ettinger – Haaretz March 12, 2008

Rabbi Dan Segal, a well known Haredi figure, told his students on Wednesday that the terror attack at Jerusalem's Mercaz Harav yeshiva last week, that left eight students dead, was in fact a punishment for the "Zionist rebellion against the shalosh shvuot."

The Shalosh Shvuot is a reference to the Gemara that interprets a verse in Shir HaShirim as containing three oaths Jews must not violate while in exile:

1. returning to the Holy Land by force,

2. rebelling against the Nations,

and 3. delaying the coming of the messiah with their sins.

The Haredi daily "Yom Hadash" ran a story on Wednesday on Segal's message to his students. "You see what happened in the yeshiva. Why did it happen there and not elsewhere? There are forces here from God," Segal was quoted as saying. "Why was Gush Katif there specifically? Because this view that this is salvation is the opposite of salvation and thus a violation of the shvuot (oaths) and it is terrible."

Rabbi Dan "Don" Segal, known as the "Mashgiach" (supervisor), is an influential figure among the ultra-Orthodox community. Several weeks ago, Segal appeared in headlines after the leader of his movement Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv instructed him not to mourn his brother's death because the latter had turned away from religion.

The "shalosh shvuot" are at the heart of the ideological disagreement between Haredi Jews and Zionists. According to Segal, "it is particularly among those who do observe the laws of the Torah that the demand is even higher not to have an incorrect viewpoint."

www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/963696.html




i think those who view as goyim are talmudic jews/zionists, just like wahabbi muslims see everyone else, even fellow muslim as infidels because they are not wahabbi, just like some christains see other denominations as not real, i think even the pope said non catholic christians were not real christians.

the fact is all these sects are luciferians/satanists, all followers of the craft.

[montag]

Chapter 15


PROTOCOLS
OF THE
WISE MEN OF ZION


The Protocols of Zion were referred to in the late 1700s. The first copy
available to public scrutiny surfaced in the early 1800s. Every aspect of this
plan to subjugate the world has since become reality, validating the authen-
ticity of conspiracy.


Author's Note: This is an exact reprint of the original text.
This has been written intentionally to deceive people. For
clear understanding, the word "Zion" should be "Sion"; any
reference to "Jews" should be replaced with the word "Il-
luminati"; and the word "goyim" should be replaced with the
word "cattle."

[synergy777]

nice 1 montag, good find bro.

[peachped]

http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/przion1.htm

[synergy777]

when you realise jews are from aryans, you start to see things differently.

these people who call themselves chosen are not jews, muslims or christians, they are the elite. they are luciferians/satanists. albert pike stated this in the alleged fake letter he wrote to mazzini.

[dondaz]

David Shayler mentions the protocols twice in my interview. He calls them zionist bankers. Having problems uploading it to youtube, tried for hours last night. I won't give up!

[mauviene]

Zionist is just the term for the movement that these bloodlines seem to be carrying out. So Zionists are not just jews, but they are any race who wishes to work for the bloodlines. What I'm curious about is why these Zionists wish to take control of temple mount. There is obviously some type of sacred treasure or text that lays there or they would of easily taken over all of Palestine by now. I think world domination is a top priority, but why do they need to infiltrate such a small country as Palestine to get it?